Quotes About Future

Worry is interest paid on trouble before it falls due.

There is no law of progress. Our future is in our own hands, to make or to mar. It will be an uphill fight to the end, and would we have it otherwise Let no one suppose that evolution will ever exempt us from struggles. 'You forget,' said the Devil, with a chuckle, 'that I have been evolving too.'

Worry is interest paid on trouble before it comes due.

The proper time to influence the character of a child is about a hundred years before he is born.

The golden age is before us, not behind us.

Not a whit, we defy augury; there's a special providence in the fall of a sparrow. If it be now, 'tis not to come; if it be not to come, it will be now; if it be not now, yet it will come: the readiness is all.

What's past is prologue.

How many ages henceShall this our lofty scene be acted o'er,In states unborn and accents yet unknown!

The day shall not be up so soon as I, To try the fair adventure of tomorrow.

For the life to come, I sleep out the thought of it.

Two lads that thought there was no more behindBut such a day tomorrow as today,And to be boy eternal.

O God! that one might read the book of fate.

There's time enough for that.

Hereafter, in a better world than this, I shall desire more love and knowledge of you.

I love technology.

What made the show work, in addition to the relationships between the members of the crew, were the stories we told each week. Star Trek wasa tribute to the great tradition of science fiction, in which future civilizations were used to tell contemporary morality tales, tales about subjects that couldn't be addressed for various reasons at the time.

And the main fight will be over water, not oil.

know that the people who live the longest and the richest lives are looking ahead and not behind.

I don't understand the concept of retirement. It's not a bad thing to savor your memories, it can be wonderful and warming, but not at the cost of losing your excitement about the future.

We may prefer to see ourselves as masters of nature, controllers of all change and progress, exempt from the seasons of history. Yet the more we balk at seasonality and the more we try to eradicate it, the more menacing we render our view of time—and of the future.

Though we live in an era of relative peace and comfort, we have settled into a mood of pessimism about the long-term future, fearful that our superpower nation is somehow rotting from within.

Most Americans express more hope for their own prospects than for their children's—or the nation's

The next Fourth Turning—America's next rendezvous with destiny—will begin in roughly ten years and end in roughly thirty.

That means, in turn, that this is an experience which shatters time and liberates people from the confinement of time by at once recalling all that has gone before and anticipating all that is to come.